Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Does the 360 Need a Tutorial?
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "CONTENT" @ 08:00 PM
""We just got data back that one-third of all Xbox 360 owners don't know that it plays DVDs," said Jeff Bell, corporate vice-president of global marketing for Microsoft's interactive entertainment division, during an interview at the X07 Canada event this week in Toronto. "Seventy percent didn't know there's a USB door in the front, they found the USB port in the back. They didn't know what the (Xbox Guide) button did to the controller. People didn't know how to hook up to Xbox Live." In an effort to take new users by the hand and gently guide them through the 360's garden of delights, Microsoft will begin shipping new Xbox 360s with a welcome video installed directly on the hard drive (or on a DVD-ROM, in the case of the stripped-down Xbox 360 Core), which will automatically play the first time the console is powered on."
OK, show of hands, who else finds it extremely scary that 1/3 of 360 owners don't know that it plays DVD? Otherwise, I think this is a great idea as long as they let you skip it if you don't want to watch it. My recent 360 setup went pretty smoothly, although I found the Live registration to be kind of convoluted.
OK, show of hands, who else finds it extremely scary that 1/3 of 360 owners don't know that it plays DVD? Otherwise, I think this is a great idea as long as they let you skip it if you don't want to watch it. My recent 360 setup went pretty smoothly, although I found the Live registration to be kind of convoluted.
